Sunday, April 01, 2007

CV

Steve Topping Artist, builder and the technical Director at Founderie Darling in Montreal

toppingstop@gmail.com

http://stoppin.blogspot.com


CV:


Solo Exhibitions


2009, August 5-15 Festival Acadien de Caraquet, showcased artist in production


2009, Sept 30-Oct 4 Art Pop: Pop Montreal, featured artist


2008, June 5- 30 Rock and Roll: Selected Contemporary Art in Newfoundland, A1C Gallery, St. John’s, NL


2008 Jan 19- Feb 6 ESPACE BLANC 4 : MARQUER LE PAYS, Caravanserail, Rimouski, QC

Residency and exposition of art on the ocean ice sheet


2007, Mar 07-Apr29 Capsule Memoir , Cinematheque Quebecois

An exhibition of 28 super-8 film-loops (30sec) in a machine of my creation.


2006, Jan15-Mar 23 Flatlander, Boreal Art Nature, Labelle, QC

Reflective thumbtacks in trees made to be level with one another for 2km


2005, Feb15-Mar 15 Les Domes de Glaces, Lachine Cannal, Montreal

Construction of domes of ice 6m x 2.5m high as public pavilions.

Coll. w/ Ana Rewakowicz. Co-produced and with Quartier Ephemere

2004, June 18-20 SpliceThis! International Super-8 Film Festival, Toronto, ON

Featured artist, photo exposition, video installation, film


2003, May 1-29 Box Expo Gallerie Skol, Montreal QC

2001, Feb 8-Mar 9 Upstairs, Solo Exhibition gallery, 787 Queen St. West, Toronto, ON

2000, Sept 03-31 Rain Paintings, Rogue space, Eastern Edge Gallery, St John's Nfld.


Group Exhibitions

2002, Oct 6-Mar 30 Against Time Armando Museum, Amersfoort, Netherlands -Reading Canada Backwards film

2002, Sept 13-Dec 7 The Dwelling, Optica, 372 St-Catherine West, Montreal, QC

2001, Oct 2-Jan 20 The Infinite Between Confederation Art Centre, Charlottetown, PEI

and Mar 15-Apr 14 The Infinite Between, Gallery 44, Toronto, ON, -Reading Canada Backwards film.

1997, Mar 28-April 19 Headquarters/ Man-Size with Marie-Paul MacDonald, Adrian Blackwell, Ken Hayes, Kika Thorn, Joep van Lieshout -Reading Canada Backwards film


Interventions

2000, Mar/April The Anti-Loft Symposium, Toronto, ON

-Symposium on post studio practice organized by Marie-Paul MacDonald and Ken Hayes. Interventions included was my Anti-loft living space in Montreal


1997-98, June U-Haul Film Festival, Toronto, ON

U-haul truck w/ screen inset in the back door. Back projected S-8 films stopping at different neighbourhoods/ communities.

Collaboration. w/ Eric Aurandt


1997, Nov-April Snow Shack, Cartier, ON

The Snow Shack was constructed as a winter shelter on “Crown land” near Cartier, Northern Ontario. It used only radiant heat and foil insulation.


Film Festivals

2004 Splice This! Toronto International S-8 Film Festival, Toronto, ON, Featured artist, Reading Canada Backwards, Box Expo, photos

2002 Anti-Matter Film Festival World Tour, Victoria, BC, Reading Canada Backwards

2001+02 Blinding Light Film Festival, Vancouver, BC, Reading Canada Backwards

1998 Splice This!” Toronto International S-8 Film Festival, Toronto, ON

2000 Anthology Film Archive, New York, N.Y. (16mm),

1999 Bandits-Mages, Bourges, France, Reading Canada Backwards

1998 Festival du Nouveau Cinema, Montreal, QC (16mm),

1997 Vancouver International Film Festival, Vancouver, BC,

-Reading Canada Backwards, Premiere of 16mm version


Publications



2006 Fuse Magazine Vol. 29, pgs 24-35 (Collective Dab)

2005 Unboxed: Engagements in pulic space, Gallery 101, Ottawa, ON

ISBN 1-896183-13-1

2005 Super Super 8, Experimental Works for Educational Environments

DVD special edition published by Canadian Filmmaker’s Distribution Center

2004 LaDemeure, Optica, Montreal, QC

2002-2003 Skol (centre des arts actuel) 2002 - 2003

“On Box Expo” - Daniel Hall

“La Piece Cinetique” - Caroline Martel,

“224 Words/Minute” - Marie-Paul Macdonald

2002 Transportable Environments, Marie-Paul Macdonald, "Wearable Environments"

ISBN 0 419 24250 3

1997 Headquarters/ Man-Size ISBN 0-9682465-0-8


Articles


2003 On-Site, #10, “The Reality of an Inflated Utopia”

2003 On-Site, #10, Marie-Paul Macdonald, “Romantic Nomads”

2003, May Montreal Mirror, Christine Redfern

2000 Mix Magazine Vol.26 No.2 Fall Vince Tinguely “Interview w/ Anti-Loft artist”

2000 Anti-Loft Symposium, online publication, Michelle Marek, www.anti-loft.org



Artist Presentations


2004, Jan Concordia University, Montreal, QC

2003, May Skol, Montreal, QC

2002, Oct Optica, Montreal, QC

2002, Oct Armando museum, Amerhestfort, Netherlands

2000, Mar The Anti-Loft Symposium, Toronto, ON

1997, June L’ Hopital Ephemere, Paris, France



Relevant Experience


Collective Dab:

A collective of architects and artists who practice urban planning jamming to influence development interests toward more radical and creative solutions. http://collectifdab.ca/#


Articule Artist run centre, Montreal, QC: Board Member (2006- present) and Programming Committee (present)

Boreal Art/ Nature Artist run centre, L'Assomption, QC

Eastern Edge Artist run centre, St-John’s, NL, exuberant volunteer

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